The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
Bernie Sanders Just Won TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll—And It Wasn’t Even Close
The democratic socialist came out far, far ahead of both Clinton and Trump.
Lauren Kaori Gurley

Culture
The Wrong Kind of Solidarity: The UK’s Decision to Join the Air Strikes on Syria
Why bombing Syria in an attempt to weaken ISIS is not the answer to the Paris attacks.
Jane Miller

Feature
What Corporate America Would Do If It Really Cared About Climate Change
CEOs are professing to care about the climate. But they're still funding Republican climate-change deniers.
Joe Conason

Rural America
Pesticide Industry Joins New York’s Pollinator Task Force—Bad News for Bees
Tracy Frisch

Labor
When Labor Groups and Silicon Valley Capitalists Join Forces to “Disrupt” Protections for Employees
Jay Youngdahl and Darwin BondGraham

Rural America
Political Economy
Mark Twain

Labor
The Entire Labor Movement Should Be Paying Attention to Wisconsin’s Kohler Strike
Joe Burns

Feature
Chicago’s Racial Justice Movement Can’t Stop at the Resignation of Police Chief Garry McCarthy
McCarthy's resignation should be seen as the beginning, not the end.
Charles Brown

Feature
Barbara Ehrenreich: America’s Blue-Collar White People Are Dying at an Astounding Rate
Could the bump in white working class deaths be the result of widespread despair?
Barbara Ehrenreich

Rural America
An Interview with the 15-Year-Old Who is Suing Obama for Not Stopping Climate Change
Rural America In These Times

Dispatch
How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws
Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.
Jake Blumgart

Labor
Black Friday Protests: A New Holiday for Progressives?
David Moberg

Feature
The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us.
Don't fear the robot.
David Moberg

Viewpoint
For Laquan McDonald and All Victims of Police Brutality, We Have To Win
If the progressive movement can't organize itself to fight back against racism and injustice in Chicago and around the country, police murders like those of Laquan McDonald, Freddie Gray and Rekia Boyd will never stop.
Katelyn Johnson

Labor
“I often had to skip meals”: Senate Dining Room Workers Want a Union, Say They’re Living in Poverty
Bruce Vail

Rural America
Before Bernie Sanders: A 19th Century Populist’s Run for the Presidency
John Collins

Culture
The Great Academic Novel
At the ripe age of 50, John Williams' "Stoner" is getting the attention it deserves
Joanna Scutts
After 16 Years in Prison DNA Evidence Leads to Exoneration
George Lavender
